“Even in situations and relationships that feel too broken to be healed, God is still working.” -Becky Keife

{So often, miracles aren’t shown to us without enduring the suffering that leads to them.}

That very suffering can be the catalyst to a hope that otherwise cannot be explained or experienced without the full puzzle, if you let it be.  

There is a resilience that comes from experiencing that suffering, no matter how much we push it away or cling to it.

Don’t waste your hurt, for inside of the heartache, you may find a truth that will change your life for eternity. 

I don’t know what you may be going through today, but God does. 

You aren’t being punished. You aren’t paying for something of your past. I used to question that with an intensity.  

So you ask- How much has my faith increased since enduring heartache and seeing what God can do with it? 

Immensely. 

To be honest…

{If the storms wouldn’t have come, and the seas would have stayed smooth, I’d still be going through the motions with Jesus without going through the heartache With Him too. -C. Elizabeth.}

I learned the depth of His possibilities. 

Your story is your story to live out and see the impossible. There is no other YOU in the purpose of God’s glory. 

For me personally, 

The world wasn’t there to find my husband overdosed on the bathroom floor, but the two that were there with me saw him come back to life as I began to pray with a desperation and spoke the name of Jesus. We all witnessed a miracle first hand that night.

The world didn’t see the 13 years I pleaded for a child. The intimate heartache that I fought through alone. They didn’t see the tears, miscarriages, endless doctors appointments, needle sticks with black and blue arms and procedures. But, the second I held my two boys in my arms, I saw miracles. I heard all of the doctors reports fall to the wayside. And now I look at my children and know what a pure miracle looks and feels like sitting right in-front of me.

People weren’t there to watch the days of disease for some of you that love Jesus. When you were close to death and then healed or healing came ultimately in the arms of Jesus. I’ve seen both, miracles. 

The world doesn’t always get to see the mission field and the constant miracles that are still happening. Just like in the Bible. My time on the mission field awakened a world I didn’t know existed outside of my little worldly bubble. 

I had someone ask me why one time- why do we see so many miracles on the mission field? After some reflection, that question and answer changed me forever…. 

We see it so often in these third world areas and in the heartache because they/we are desperate for them. When we walk through what we do, we wait on them and in some of the most afraid places in our hearts, we believe for them.

As the Bible says, “YOUR faith has healed you.” 

Your faith can heal you too. Physically, mentally, spiritually.

This truth is the same truth right where you are. In the season you stand in and in the heartache you are face down in. 

So today, no matter where you stand, know that your desperation can and will awaken a faith that you’ve never known, if you let it. 

We may never know this side of heaven why, but I’ve seen enough to know that I can trust the One who does. 

It’s ok to miss what you had or grieve what was, but don’t miss your miracle wishing for a different life.

I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. 

— John 16:33

Love,

C. Elizabeth